Modelling and Simulation of Computer Systems

Teacher: Helen Karatza, Associate Professor

E-mail: karatza@csd.auth.gr

Lectures:

• Tuesday        11:00 -13:00    S
• Wednesday   09:00 -11:00    S

Course Contents

Basic Simulation Modelling.

Systems, models and simulation. Different simulation types.

Discrete event simulation.

Queueing system simulation. Modeling complex systems.

Simulation Software. The GPSS/H language.

Building credible simulation models.

Selecting input probability distributions. Generating random numbers and random variates.

Analysis of simulation results.

   Supporting resources

• Description of commonly used Simulation Tools

• Sample Exercises (a),  Sample Exercises (b)

• Random Numbers

Bibliography

• At the blackboard homepage

 Tools

• PEPSY
• MOSEL
• SimPack
• GridSim
• SimJava
• GPSS/H
• Parasol
• Hit
• OMNeT++
• PARSEC
• Network Simulator ns-2
• SimOS

Relevant Pages

Next, you can find some pages with content relevant with the subject:

• http://www.informs-cs.org/
• http://www.scs.org/
• http://www.acm.org/sigsim/
• http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/hase/simjava/
• http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/websim.html
• http://monarc.web.cern.ch/MONARC/simulation/iosif.html
• http://www.eurosim.info/
• http://www.cs.wm.edu/~esmirni/Teaching/cs526/
• http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/perros/simulation.pdf